Read from the bottom up: Today I brewed The Domestic for a second time. It is a Classic American Pilsner, also called a Pre-Prohibition Lager. The recipe is from Jamil Zainasheff’s book Brewing Classic Styles. 12.5º Plato OG 80% German Pilsner 20% Flaked Maize Rest at 148ºF for 60 minutes Mash out to 160ºF Collect [...]
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The nettle beer came down with an acetobacter infection. This is not a surprise because fermentation conditions almost encouraged it. When I made the beer, I was out of carboys after making a Newcastle Brown ale clone. Under the circumstances I used a 5-gallon bucket. Normally these vessels can make great beer, however none of [...]
On June 20th I made an approximation of a Belgian tripel. Tripel Digits 5 US gallonsOG: 18% BrixFG: 8.8% BrixIBU: ~30 Fermentables 14 lbs 2-row 1 lbs cane sugar 60 minute rest at 152° F. 60 metric minute boil. Hops 1 oz 8.1% AA Perle pellets 60 minutes 1 oz 4.6% AA Saaz pellets 10 [...]
On ITAFtHD I made a brown ale from AHS. Readers will know that I really messed that one up using RO water. I came out with 15 gallons when I expected only 10 – meaning that the beers were weak. Beer #2 was a slow starter, taking two days and some krasuen from beer #1 [...]
